Haunted Places in America: Alcatraz
Alcatraz has been known to be one of the most haunted places in America by those that have visited the renowned prison for years. The history of Alcatraz begins in the 1850s, when the first prisoners were military prisoners that were employed to actually build the place that would imprison them off the coast of San Francisco on a large rocky island. Almost forty years later the government had decided to use the space as a maximum security prison… and the stories began!
The routine at Alcatraz was tough; there were many famous criminals that the government thought they could break with the harsh conditions and daily activities that remained the same day in and day out. There were no special privileges for prisoners at Alcatraz, any privileges above basic shelter and food had to be earned by good behavior.
If prisoners failed to obey the rules, they were thrown in the hole. There were five “hole” cells which were below the ground and only provided the prisoner with basic necessities such as a toilet, sink and a mattress during the night. There is a very particular haunting of one these hole cells, “hole” cell 14D that envelop visitors to the cell with the feeling of an immediate coldness and intensity washing over their body once they enter the space.
The haunting activities of the hole cell began in the 1940s, when a prisoner locked in the cell through the night made screaming claims that something was trying to kill him – what could it be that was trying to kill him? His screaming claimed the monster to be dark with glowing eyes. The strange part is, there were guards that viewed this man in the lineup with the other inmate’s only moments before he was strangled to death in the cell. Another interesting aspect to this haunting is the next day, after the man had been pronounced dead and removed from the roll calls, there had been one extra prisoner that had not been accounted for – could this be our mysterious ghostly killer with the glowing eyes?
There are more than one haunting stories at Alcatraz where thousands of men were kept for their maximum security prison sentence. Apparently the torture that existed at Alcatraz brought prisoners back after their death to roam the halls of the prison, which is now open for tours. As the island was secluded, it has been said the guards could do whatever they wanted to the prisoners, causing enough damage for the prisoners to remain in these halls, for eternity! Now that is a prison sentence, if I have ever heard one.
Crying, moaning and other sounds of hardship have been heard through cell blocks A, C and D throughout the time that the prison has been open. There are apparently countless spirits stuck in Alcatraz which have been documented hundreds of times through the use of paranormal investigations and visits to the island from renowned psychics and ghost-hunters.
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Why doesnt someone invite TAPS to investigaste the prison of alkatraz?
they did and its been proven haunted
Dude, wow. I can’t believe it, freaky.
omgg,.
thiss was so scaryy.
i cnt beileve…
it wass awsomee thoughhh.
i spent my school computer time at school reading this.it was so worth it,
haha.
my friend “rage” read it with mee,.
hha.
funnayy(:
I know Lexi freaky, awsome prodgect for school today much better than my salem witch trials.
TAP Most Haunted all of em are jokes. They need to have proper scientific surveys of these haunted places. Most of the time its due to sound below human hearing 19 dbs which can evoke a feeling of dread or a depressive presence. There was a scientific study taken of Alcatraz and all they could prove was that water leaking through the roof and low noise were the causes of the so called Hauntings
Unless something physical can be produced, real pictures, video and scientific evidence I think am a sceptic.
Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Louis Pasteur, Sigmund Freud, Galileo Galilei and all the rest also had skeptics until the “science” caught up to what the already beleived and eventually proved. Even during their time they had fellow scientists call them foolish. I am not sure that modern science as we know it could “prove” the paranormal as it stands now. The science may have to be advanced as it was with the scientists mentioned earlier for it to become accepted by the masses.
TAPS 100th episode will be Alcatraz!
TAPS will be there March 3rd! Cant wait, and yes its their 100th episode.
this is all so fake. TAPS!!! oh my gosh no way! jk. this is retarted. bunch of guys wit no life who think the can prove things haunted. wow. epic failure.
MMarky
where did you find out about the scientific study of alcatraz?
yeah me as well and it is freaky i think i no lexi and rage
wooow dude i think their douchses
omg its soooo true, my friend and i did the overnight tour and we never believed in ghosts, like ever. Then we kept hearing noises that sounded like cells opening and closing and footsteps and it kept getting really cold and we both had like 3 blankets! none of what happened could have been any of the people in our group because we were awake all night and nobody left! Im not lieing people this place is totally haunted
I visited Alcatraz along with the other haunted sites in California. I say the prison is filled with lost and angry souls. There was times I had ringing in my ears and couldn’t understand the personel tape player they gave us as we walked the tour. There was erie fellings and goose bumps when nearing some of the buildings that were falling down,and foggy areas where there could be no fog, not isolated as it was. On returning back to mainland I still felt the presence of an entity. I beleive they know if you can sence them.
im watching Taps investigate alcatraz right now, and it is so creepy! So i went online to research more about it, really cool. i still dont know if i want to got there… it would be an awesome experence but i dont think i have the gut to do it….
actually its only 10:30 p.m.